Born in La Laguna in 1980, Antonio Cabrera flirted with Medicine to surrender to computing, a field in which he landed attracted by video games. His thing was not programming, but creating great technological events that value the industry and the development of innovation.
Due to the weight of family inertia, Antonio Cabrera (The lagoon1980) he was called to be part of a new generation linked to medicineas is the case with both his father and his mother, a researcher.
Since he was little he swarmed through different schools in Aguere, such as La Aneja until he reached Cabrera Pinto and from there, to the University in Brussels precisely to complete the studies in medicine. However, he had the sting of the video game inside him and he returned to his homeland to train as a computer engineer and then achieve the highest degree in organization and project development.
This citizen of the world, who came to live in Grenada and even Minnesota, in USAamong others, was clear about his vocation, technology, to which he devoted himself almost as if it were a game, to the point that hand in hand with his fellow Faculty he celebrated the first technological meeting in a flat. Antonio was always clear that he was not called to be a great programmer, but he did feel, feel, passion for the technology industry and the development of innovation.
That experience with my fellow students was just the embryo of what was to come. AND In 2005 they managed to get a undertaker to lend them a place with the counterpart that the participants in the computer event were in charge of tidying it up. No sooner said than done. The tombstones and other funerary items were replaced by tables and chairs for the computer event that brought together 70 young people in this El Rosario venue.
Such was the power of convocation that a neighbor required the presence of the Police due to the bustle of the young people, and the then mayor of La Esperanza, Macario Benítez, who Antonio Cabrera knew from the courses he had taught, even came to the place. Technological Literacy. The municipal councilor, far from reproaching him for the activity, encouraged him to do it in front of the public, so the following year moved to the Radazul pavilion. were planned 250 participants and more than 300.
Already in 2007, by the hand of the then president of the Cabildo, Ricardo Melchior, and the counselor Víctor Pérez Borrero, the TLP took shape Tenerife, which begins to walk in the fairgrounds of the capital of Tenerife. What at first seemed like a world to fill with participants, now remains small, acknowledges Cabrera.
In parallel, he founded Innova 7, an association that supervised the TLP and in which Antonio Cabrera himself was in charge for ten years, until 2016. From then on, six founders of the TLP Tenerife decide to undertake another project that combines computers and culture, the support they receive in 2019 from HiperDino being essential, with the commission for the development of the online Canarian League ESport. The irruption of the pandemic delayed the premiere of his new project, TGG to 2021, and now the second date is being held.
Antonio Cabrera is a genius of innovation. He rubs off when he speaks on a grand scale. Beyond 30,000 visitors, think of the more than three million virtual users in Spain, to keep this appointment as a world reference while not ruling out including other events in other latitudes. The TGG, in which twelve people work throughout the year and now 400 are involved, places Tenerife as a benchmark for innovation worldwide.
